DETROIT — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will speak to members of the Detroit Economic Club next week as the presidential campaign in Michigan intensifies.

Trump is scheduled to appear before Detroit business leaders on Oct. 10 at the MotorCity Casino Hotel's Soundboard theater, the economic club said Wednesday.

The event is scheduled to begin with a strolling lunch for economic club members at 11:45 a.m. and a program with Trump at 1 p.m., according to the schedule.

John Rakolta Jr., chairman of Detroit-based construction giant Walbridge, will be the presiding officer for the economic club meeting. Rakolta served as Trump's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2019 to 2021.

Trump spoke to the Detroit Economic Club in August 2016 at Detroit's Huntington Place convention center during his first campaign for the presidency. He won Michigan by about 10,700 votes that year over Democrat Hillary Clinton en route to the White House.

Trump's economic club speech is scheduled a week after the former president is slated to stump for votes in Saginaw County.

On Thursday, he is set to speak on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University, which would mark his 11th campaign event in Michigan this year.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is coming back to Michigan on Friday for a campaign rally in Flint.

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